Sunraku vs. Lycagon the Nightslayer

Sunraku vs. Lycagon the Nightslayer is a battle fought by Sunraku against Lycagon the Nightslayer. It takes place in Diremarsh Waste after Sunraku was fighting Redcap Goblin in which suddenly the goblins get defeated by an unique monster Lycagon the Nightslayer.

Prologue
In the Diremarsh Waste, Sunraku is fighting a Redcap Goblin. Previously he had encountered some night monsters and they are more aggressive and dangerous, and that helped him level up a bit and learn some new skills, however the Redcap Goblin seems too strong. Its faster and has more attacks than a normal Goblin. Additionally it has lots of HP and incorporates feints into its fighting style. The Redcap Goblin then calls more Redcap Goblin, which surprises Sunraku as usually only weaker monsters call other monster for help. Sunraku prepares to fight them, but suddenly the goblins get defeated. Sunraku then sees a large wolf, an unique monster Lycagon the Nightslayer. Meanwhile at the video game company offices, a monitor showcases that the game's story progress is at 0%, since not a single unique monster has been killed.

Battle
Sunraku faces the unique monster Lycagon the Nightslayer. As the Redcap Goblins to wipe in a single attack, Sunraku realizes that a single hit from Lycagon will defeat him. Lycagon attacks, Sunraku manages to Perfect Parry and then counter attacks, but his attack has no effect. He is glad that he learned Perfect Parry, otherwise he would have been dead right now. Sunraku equips the Vorpal Choppers and lands a critical hit on Lycagon's paw as it attacks. He dodges a few more times and lands a second critical. Lycagon then disappears and suddenly appears behind Sunraku, however Sunraku manages to dodge his attack in time. The two continue to fight. After about five minutes, Sunraku had dodges every attack of Lycagon, but feels that even though he landed large amount of critical hits, it has no effect. At the same time, his Vorpal Choppers are losing their durability. Sunraku knowns that Lycagon is out of his league at the moment, however he still enjoys it. After a few more critical hits, Lycagon stops and starts to howl. Sunraku is then unable to move and in just a moment, Lycagon strikes and cuts Sunraku's legs. As the attack was so fast, Sunraku couldn't even see what hit him. He is also surprised that he is still alive with 1 HP remaining. Sunraku tells Lycagon that its incredible strong, however the wolf was programmed to be that strong, so it also means its beatable. Sunrake then makes his mind, stating that he doesn't care about the last boss or the story, and while it may take some time, he will for sure beat Lycagon. Until then, Lycagon must make sure that it doesn't get defeated by anyone else. Lycagon then bites Sunraku, killing him and applying Lycagon's Mark curse.

Aftermath
Sunraku respawns in the inn in Secondil. He sees that he has a curse applied and reads that while cursed, he can't equip armor on the curse place; monsters lower than his level will flee; will gain new conversation options with NPCs; cursed body parts gain resistance to magic; and that the curse can be removed by a Saint or by defeating the curse caster. Sunraku gets frustrated that he can't equip any armor and feels this is a trash game type of thing. Sunraku then sees that even though he didn't defeat Lycagon, just by fighting it, he gained a lot of experience and is now levvl 28. Having 50 points to spend, he decides to refine his build, but ends up investing his points elsewhere, but no on Vitality. He realized he made himself a glass cannon, but has no other choice as the curse locked two of his four armor slots, so there is no point in investing into vitality. Since he has high luck stat, he guesses it the reason why he remained on 1 HP after the wolf's attack.